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Article: The sands of time: shallow funding prevents dredging from pacing nature, causing commerce to ebb on the Intracoastal Waterway.(COVER STORY)
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- Business North Carolina
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- August 1, 2009
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It's usually sunrise, not midmorning, when the Silverado leaves Carolina Beach for waters around Frying Pan Shoals. But the fishermen aboard, who had driven from Greensboro and spent the night at a motel to get an early start, don't complain. Captain Dennis Barbour has explained that Carolina Beach Inlet, his access from the Intracoastal Waterway to the ocean, has become so shallow his charter boat must catch a favorable tide. Still, he scowls as he eases the throttle forward and picks up speed. Breakfast, not brunch, is the time to be baiting up.
Barbour isn't the only disgruntled waterman on the Tar Heel coast. On Albemarle Sound, Bos Smith complains of a ...
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